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爻

爻 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 4 strokes

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. まじわる。
  2. 易において、卦を組み合わせる本となる、陰陽の記号。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

to mix with, to associate with, to join, double X radical (no. 89)

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • コウ
  • ギョウ
Kun (native)
  • まじ(わる)
Other languages
  • 拼音yao2
  • 한글hyo
  • Hán-ViệtHào

Basics

Strokes
4 strokes
Radical
爻(まじわる)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+723B

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱乂乂

Words using this kanji

  • 爻こうyao (line representing yin or yang that comprises one third of an I Ching trigram)
  • 爻辞こうじ易における各爻を説明した言葉。commentary (on any of the 384 lines of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(4 results)

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Lookup codes

SKIP
2-2-2
Four Corner
4040.0
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a4.30